Incel Journey In and Out of the DarkWeb, Alt-News Dark Web speaks

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This follows on from a NewYork Times article about how YouTube radicalizes youth.

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“I fell down the alt-right rabbit hole,” he said in the video.

Over years of reporting on internet culture, I’ve heard countless versions of Mr. Cain’s story: an aimless young man — usually white, frequently interested in video games — visits YouTube looking for direction or distraction and is seduced by a community of far-right creators.


Some young men discover far-right videos by accident, while others seek them out. Some travel all the way to neo-Nazism, while others stop at milder forms of bigotry.


The common thread in many of these stories is YouTube and its recommendation algorithm, the software that determines which videos appear on users’ home pages and inside the “Up Next” sidebar next to a video that is playing. The algorithm is responsible for more than 70 percent of all time spent on the site.

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The Making of a YouTube Radical

Creh spoke to TYT today



This is his own channel.



Looking at the pic at the top you can see the usual darkweb channels. He claims that Destiny (Gamer) helped pull him out.

This is not a story about him, Incels or the NYT. This is an example of how the Powers That Be have lost control of the narrative.

 

[Moody]

Over years of reporting on internet culture, I’ve heard countless versions of Mr. Cain’s story: an aimless young man — usually white, frequently interested in video games — visits YouTube looking for direction or distraction and is seduced by a community of far-right creators.

"seduced"

You know I've noticed American white people have a huge problem with scapegoating. In the sense that it's way easier to remove horrific intent from the masses and a greater culture/ideology by simply placing it onto one, specific person or in-group. They do this with Columbus on the left. "Columbus was so bad, so evil". Which he was, but compared to every other Spanish/French colonialist he was one of the more benevolent ones. So it's not a mark on colonial/european culture, but rather this one individual.

The same thing happens to young, far-right people. It isn't them or the culture that surrounds them. It's these 10 terrible ppl on youtube. This is the problem, you see. That's why they spend so much time on the IDW threads and linking people to others. And platforming vs deplatforming and so on. Anything to avoid asking aloud how many people in this country have these horrible views and what can be done to change this.